Next up, a largeish exhibit of a long time artist, Vija Celmims. Her pencil drawings of dirt and rocks and waves and stars were incredible and just ... mind numbingly repetitive. There were so many of them. In all kinds of sizes. Over decades. All done with pencil.
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Vija Celmims. Untilted (medium desert) 1974-75 graphite on paperpic.twitter.com/owMD5SMNGz
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Vija Celmims. Divided Ocean 1988 oil on canvaspic.twitter.com/WR418dRBM2
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Untitled night sky #1 1994-95 charcoal on paper This one killed me with how incredibly black and inky and real it looked. Yet also just pure nonchalance, in terms of construction. It’s just charcoal on paper. She’d color the paper in black, then reveal the stars with eraserspic.twitter.com/u0G5thZiPs
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Last one from Vija — she went through a reversal in the last few years. Now the stars are inky spots. Untitled reverse night sky #2 2014 charcoal pencil on acrylic ground on paperpic.twitter.com/YpvkHYcP3L
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I swung through the Louis Stettner exhibit too quickly- lots of great noir shots of NYC. This was a fave Loius Stettner Odd man in 1958 gelatin silver printpic.twitter.com/aKd8hF6Rau
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Last stop on the tour: a double exhibit of Wayne Thiebaud. One section was his art, the other art curated by Wayne, with his own reasons for picking it.
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First let’s see some of Wayne’s stuff
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Wayne Thiebaud Canyon mountains 2010-11 oil on canvas This piece was big, like 5ft tall, the paint was layered on so thicccpic.twitter.com/uaBBqOtyD8
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He had a bunch of other stuff but apparently I only liked his mountain stuff. Hoping to have some success repainting this one with the watercolor set I picked up last month Wayne Thiebaud Untitled ‘65 watercolor and gauche on paperpic.twitter.com/bm0HVHpWmf
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